Comments on: Radio cabinet media center

By: JF

JF — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:15:38 +0000

Well done!

By: LJ

LJ — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:19:26 +0000

Is that a Monorail brand PC? I have an old one that looks just like that.

By: dom1nion

dom1nion — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:01:02 +0000

Is it just my ageing eyesight or is that a Sub sat on top of the PC along with a pair of Satellite speakers. If so, I’m guessing the sound quality will be far better than “just a pair of desktop speakers”. 8/10

By: Donald Haase

Donald Haase — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:43:29 +0000

Don’t know if anyone would care (based on the response in these comments), but someone on a forum I frequent has been working on a very similar project for a number of weeks: http://dcemulation.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=99374

His build log is a bit more extensive, including first restoring the radio, and he is using a macmini+small full color LCD.

By: medix

medix — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:31:19 +0000

“Its a process by the way people, you start out small and improve.”

If that’s the case, where (oh WHERE) are the improvements?

I think many of (us) have seen a general decline in the quality of projects. This is the point behind the massive amounts of unrest (ideally in the hopes of returning things to the way they were).

By: Rod

Rod — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:24:03 +0000

Oh my god…Enough already, to a simpleton like me this is a great idea and easy to do. I am going to do a similar thing like this.

Its a process by the way people, you start out small and improve. You do not pick up the soldering iron one day and start fixing computer boards for a living… People who are putting this down are way too much into themselves.

By: Caleb Kraft

Caleb Kraft — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:17:44 +0000

Guys, we use “we” in all of our posts. Look around and you’ll see.

By: Mic

Mic — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:14:00 +0000

@therian, I assume “we” refers to team hackaday, or maybe it is the people living in his head.

By: Mic

Mic — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:59:40 +0000

Ha Kirov. Constructive criticism. Hardly, where is the constructive part? Calling people fags is what children do. Grow up retard.

By: necronum

necronum — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:58:31 +0000

not too shabby, although i have a similar unit of my own, where i took an old magnavox radio phonograph and hard wired a p4 motherboard into the cab with lcd display, and fully integrated the tube amplifier for sound.

By: tj

tj — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:53:06 +0000

This looks like some terminal from BTSS.

By: medix

medix — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:17:26 +0000

“The electronics were shot and the controls had seen better days”

Last I checked, all an old radio usually needs is new caps..

By: blizzarddemon

blizzarddemon — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:02:15 +0000

Man is kirov a twit. I don’t think cap locks are even remotely considered constructive. You wanna be constructive, make something some cares about and let us our peace.

By: therian

therian — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:34:14 +0000

Mike whats up with “we” ?
“We” like in multiply personalities disorder, or “we” as in we destructors of the hack a day ?

By: Jeremy C

Jeremy C — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:11:00 +0000

Not bad, the control system is really where I think this qualifies as a “hack”. If it was just a computer stuffed into a case that wouldn’t qualify.